Let me boil my last post, Google Plus was born prematurely and you should take advantage , down to practical pieces. To help you carefully handle Google+ for maximum advantage, I’ve assembled eight steps that help you get the best searh visibility from your Google+ posts. hacked this awful-looking graphic as an example: Here’s a list of things that you need to consider before you invest your time and energy in Google+: Make sure all your posts are Public. Here’s my Google+ public profile. Use a clean URL when you add your content to Google+. MORE >>

love Twitter.  But Twitter is dying, and it’s all because of you. Tribes are killing Twitter. m a content curator and I spend time every morning reading content and sharing the best of what I find that day, on topics like social media, technology, marketing, and website and mobile design. Then I go to a Twitter List of my favorite Tweeps. Continuing to scan my Twitter stream, I kept see the same posts, each tweeted by several people. When I first started curating content, I used LinkedIn groups as a source. Later, I added Twitter to the mix. MORE >>

Start a Blog — I know what you’re thinking: blogging’s dead. However, if you’ll notice, most of what folks are sharing online via Twitter , Facebook , Pinterest , Tumblr, and Google + are articles via links. The only real way of creating and providing content that can easily be shared everywhere is via a blog or some other kind of bloggish platform. With a blog-based platform, be it your personal or professional site, sharing your content from a web application you own and control is a no-brainer. Good luck and Godspeed! MORE >>

Consider this stat from my site traffic and Triberr account: As I’m drafting this, my April blog posts have been shared 331 times through Triberr (per Triberr’s reporting), yet I’ve only had 25 visits from Triberr (per Google Analytics). Let me know in the comments below or on Twitter ( @wittlake ). Content Social Media audience developement Content Curation social sharing triberrWe all know people that overshare. These are all conversations I have overheard recently on public transit). You focused on a quantity rule. Get out of your rut. MORE >>

The past year has been a year of more dashboards , more ways to measure , more apps, more blogs and just more of more. In fact, there’s so much content that we now call wading through it all content curation. From our standpoint, we tend to have a lot of information to review and manage; check out our Twitter feed to get an idea of the vast array of topics we need to cover. Twitter lists in my opinion are the best resource for you in order to do this. also still rely on RSS feeds and Google Reader. And it’s all happening in real-time. Make Time. MORE >>